Poor Bastards

Originally posted by chessisvanity
Player's Name
Born/Death
Cause of Death

Abe Turner
1924 / 1962
Stabbed nine times in the back by a fellow employee at the Chess Review office.

Alexander Alekhine
1892 / 1946
Choked to death on a piece of meat.

Alexander Ilyin-Genevsky
1894 / 1941
Died in the siege of Leningrad
while on a barge.

Alexander McDonnell
17 ...[text shortened]... ussia.
Vladimir Simagin 1919 / 1968 Died of a heart attack while
playing in a tournament.

Just goes to show... Chess is bad for you.

Originally posted by chessisvanity
you said...."ate raw meet and committed suicide."

did he eat the raw meat then kill himself?

or was eating raw meat his regular routine?

He did it together. CSI would've struggled with that one.

Renegade